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9th and 10th Grade Summer Reading

9th and 10th Grade Summer Reading List 2012
Longwood High School

Cover	Title	Author	Description
	The Five People You Meet in Heaven	Albom, Mitch	An old man who died while trying to rescue a little girl from danger discovers that all will be explained to him in the afterlife.
	Speak	Anderson, Laurie Halse	A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
	Chains	Anderson, Laurie Halse	When her owner dies at the start of the Revolution, a greedy nephew keeps Isabel and her younger sister enslaved and sells them to Loyalists in New York, where she is offered the chance to spy for the Patriots.
	Go Ask Alice	Anonymous	Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
	I Robot	Asimov, Isaac	Isaac Asimov, one of the Grand Masters of science fiction, tells us the stories of the robots of which he dreamed, from the first days of their creation to the days of their ultimate sophistication.
	Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream	Bissinger, H.G.	Chronicles a football season in Odessa, Texas, a depressed All-American town that lives and dies with the fortunes of its high school football team
	Flags of Our Fathers	Bradley, James	Focusing on the men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima, this stirring chronicle of one of the bloodiest battles of World War II follows the young men--most of them barely out of high school--into the fiercest hand-to-hand combat of the war.
	Flyboys: A True Story of Courage	Bradley, James	A chilling true story of World War II describes the story of eight young American airmen who were shot down over Chichi Jima, one of whom was rescued by an American submarine and went on to become president of the United States, and the other seven who were captured by Japanese troops and whose fate has remained a secret for nearly sixty years.
	Ender's Game	Card, Orsen Scott	A veteran of years of simulated war games, Ender believes he is engaged in one more computer war game when in truth he is commanding the last fleet of Earth against an alien race seeking the complete destruction of Earth
	Gifted Hands	Carson, Ben	Examines the life and career of the famous neurosurgeon, Dr. Benjamin Carson gained worldwide recognition for his part in the first successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the back of the head.
	The Hunger Games	Collins, Suzanne	In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
	Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of Emmett Till Case	Crowe, Chris	Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955.
	Whale Talk	Crutcher, Chris	Intellectually and athletically gifted, T.J., a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.
	Runner	Deuker, Carl	Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has been hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of running leads to a high-paying job, he quickly learns that the money is not worth the risk.
	Who Killed My Daughter	Duncan, Lois	The story of a mother's search for the truth behind her daughter's death shows how she was able to uncover information that the police could not.
	Copper Sun	Draper, Sharon	Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
	Bang	Flake, Sharon	A teenage boy must face the harsh realities of inner city life, a disintegrating family, and destructive temptations as he struggles to find his identity as a young man.
	Hole in My Life	Gantos, Jack	The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.
	Fat Kid Rules the World	Going, K.L.	Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band.
	The curious incident of the dog in the night-time	Haddon, Mark	Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
	The Secret Life of Bees	Kidd, Sue Monk	After her "stand-in mother," a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults the three biggest racists in town, Lily Owens joins Rosaleen on a journey to Tiburon, South Carolina, where they are taken in by three black, bee-keeping sisters.
	Spite Fences	Krisher, Trudy	As she struggles with her troubled relationship with her mother during the summer of 1960, a young girl is also drawn into the violence, hatred, and racial tension in her small Georgia town.
	Uncommon Faith	Krisher, Trudy	In 1837-38, residents of Millbrook, Massachusetts, speak in their different voices of major issues of their day, including women's rights, slavery, religious differences, and one fiery girl named Faith.
	Son of the Mob	Korman, Gordon	Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent.
	The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks	Lockhart, E.	Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks.
	Swallowing Stones	MacDonald, Joyce	Dual perspectives reveal the aftermath of seventeen-year-old Michael MacKenzie's birthday celebration during which he discharges an antique Winchester rifle and unknowingly kills the father of high school classmate Jenna Ward.
	The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things	Macker, Carolyn	Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.
	DopeSick	Myers, Walter Dean	Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy "Lil J" Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a weird man who shows different turning points in Lil J's life when he could have made better choices.
	Fallen Angels	Myers, Walter Dean	Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
	Monster	Myers, Walter Dean	While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
	Eragon	Paolini, Christopher	In Alagaèesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
	Mortal Engines	Reeve, Philip	In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another.
	The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers	Roach, Mary	A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility.
	The Burn Journals	Runyon, Brent	Brent Runyon was fourteen years old when he set himself on fire. In this book he describes that suicide attempt and his recovery over the following year.
	Open the Unusual Door: true life stories of challenges, adventure and success by Black Americans	Summers, Barbra	A thought-provoking anthology includes inspiring autobiographical essays by a diverse group of African-Americans such as Derek Jeter, Russell Simmons, Queen Latifah, and Antwone Fisher.
	The Hobbit	Tolkien, J.J.R.	Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
	Stuck in Neutral	Trueman, Terry	Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him.
	Double Helix	Werlin, Nancy	Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering
	True Believer	Wolff, Virginia Ewer	Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to.
	Elsewhere	Zevin, Gabrielle	After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live".

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